Senking plays Pong

The Raster-Noton act's next LP takes inspiration from the arcade classic.

Cologne-based artist Senking will release his next album, Pong, this September on Raster-Noton.

As its title suggests, Senking's new LP is inspired by the classic 2-D ball-and-paddle game. Just how that arcade staple influenced the sounds of the record isn't exactly clear, but according to a press release, Pong shows Senking playing with "stretched dubstep rhythms" complete with sub-basslines, hints of melody and atmospheres that evoke Angelo Badalamenti's soundtracks to David Lynch films. All of the songs are previously unreleased, though Senking debuted many of them at Club Transmediale earlier this year in Berlin. In true Raster-Noton fashion, there's more to the CD than just music: a 3-D "interpretation" of the original Pong is included in the data portion of the disc.

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jens massel aka senking was born in colgne in 1969 and lives there again today.
1995: starting with electronic music
1996: senking first released on cologne label karaoke kalk as kandis. at beginning there were only a few senking tracks on kandis records. later, starting 1997, senking became an individual project as more and more tracks with this kind of sound were created.
jens massel played keybord in the band genf (guitar, bass, drums and sample/synthesizer).
1999: first contact with raster-noton, his first release on the label was sixtth (june) cd of 20 to 2000 series
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